Sylar's victims

Sylar's victims
Sylar stands over a mistaken victim, Jackie Wilcox.
First occurrence:	Don't Look Back

As Sylar moves across the country, he is leaving a growing number of victims.

Methods

Sylar has used several methods to attack his victims:

• Blunt force
• Freezing them
• Decoy
• Impaling them
• Telekinetically throwing them

Additionally, some victims have the top of their skulls cut off, and their brains removed. The implied theory is that Sylar can replicate the special powers of his victims because he has intuitive aptitude, the ability to see how things work. (Six Months Ago)

• Mohinder Suresh discovers that Sylar owns an extensive collection of autopsy books in his apartment. It is implied that Sylar is perfecting his technique. (One Giant Leap)
• Not every victim is killed in this manner, possibly indicating Sylar is targeting evolved humans for brain removal in order to gain their powers.

List of Victims

Name	Description	Reference	Power Taken
Charlie Andrews	The waitress is killed in the back of the Burnt Toast Diner.	Seven Minutes to Midnight	Enhanced memory
David	In July 2006, Sylar kills a white male in Chicago.	Turning Point	Unknown
Brian Davis	Sylar's first victim (while still known as Gabriel Gray/Gabriel Sylar) was (manually) hit from behind with a large crystal. After Brian's murder, Sylar acquired his power of telekinesis.	Six Months Ago	Telekinesis
An FBI agent	Sylar impales the agent who was guarding Molly at FBI Headquarters.	One Giant Leap	None
Virginia Gray	Sylar accidentally kills his mother when she attacks him with scissors. He does not take her brain.	The Hard Part	None
Hank	the Company medical professional is killed in Sylar's cell after Sylar fakes his own death.	The Fix	None
Eden McCain	The Company agent is attacked by Sylar through his holding cell's glass, but shoots herself before he can take her power.	Fallout	None
Isaac Mendez	In October 2006, Isaac creates a painting that is a prophecy of his own death. On November 8th, Hiro enters Isaac's apartment and discovers the corpse. After his encounter with Peter in Mohinder's apartment, Sylar kills Isaac. His wrist and ankles are telekinetically impaled with paint brushes.	Don't Look Back, .07%	Precognition
Northeast Brewing Company trucker	Sylar kills the man who helped him; he telekinetically jams broken beer bottles into his head.	Road Kill	None
Dale Smither	Sylar gets overly excited when learning of her power. That night, he kills her.	Unexpected	Enhanced hearing
Chandra Suresh	In a dream, Mohinder sees his father killed in a cab by an unseen figure wearing Sylar's watch, presumably Sylar himself.	Seven Minutes to Midnight	None
Sylar's decoy victim	In June 2006, Sylar gives his clothes to an old man as a decoy. Audrey is duped into thinking she found Sylar, and shoots the old man.	Turning Point	None
Zane Taylor	Sylar remembers the man's name from Chandra's map, and impersonates Mohinder Suresh to meet him. Sylar then steals his identity and power.	Run!	Liquefaction
Uniformed police officer	In an unaired scene, Sylar freezes a cop guarding Molly.	One Giant Leap (unaired scene)	None
Unknown victim from Barstow	Audrey mentions a victim from Barstow, CA, who was killed in a manner similar to Sylar's other victims, but who survived long enough to say Sylar's name.	Don't Look Back	None
James Walker	Molly Walker's father is found dead, frozen, in their home.	Don't Look Back	Unknown
Mrs. Walker	Molly Walker's mother is found dead, impaled to the wall, in their home.	Don't Look Back	None
Jackie Wilcox	Mistaking her for Claire Bennet, Sylar kills the cheerleader at Union Wells High School. This fulfills the painting by Isaac and Peter.	Homecoming	None

List of Attempted Victims

Name	Description	Reference
Claire Bennet	In a locker room Sylar forcibly throws Claire aside to focus on Jackie Wilcox; Claire is promptly saved by regeneration.	Homecoming
Mr. Bennet	Sylar telekinetically throws his former captor against the repaired glass window.	Distractions
Sandra Bennet	At the Bennets' home, Sylar causes the woman to be knocked into a glass bookshelf.	Distractions
Audrey Hanson	When the agent draws her gun on Sylar and orders him to stop, she is somehow hurled backward. Sylar then makes her point her gun at her own head, but before he can make her fire, Matt arrives and fires several shots at the suspect, who gets up and escapes, as does Audrey.	One Giant Leap
Peter Petrelli	After being thwarted in his attempts to kill Claire at Homecoming, Sylar pursues Peter. Sylar grabs Peter, and they both fall off the bleachers at Union Wells High School, onto the pavement below. Though Peter lies twisted and mangled on the ground, he adopts Claire's power of regeneration and survives. Sylar surprises Peter by telekinetically pinning him to the wall, and then begins to cut the top of Peter's head off, temporarily killing him.	Homecoming Parasite, .07%
Mohinder Suresh	Sylar pins a bloodied Mohinder to the ceiling of his New York apartment.	Parasite
Molly Walker	After failing to locate her at her parents' home, Sylar attempts to abduct the James Walker's daughter from FBI Headquarters in Los Angeles.	One Giant Leap

Victims from Alternate Timelines

• Sylar kills Claire Bennet in 2006. (String Theory)
• Sylar kills Candace Willmer. (Five Years Gone)
• Sylar kills Nathan Petrelli and assumes his identity. (Five Years Gone)
• Sylar kills somebody (presumably D.L. Hawkins) and steals their ability to phase. (Five Years Gone)
• Future Sylar kills Claire Bennet in 2011. (Five Years Gone)

Memorable Quotes

"There isn't a Sylar. Last words of a dying victim, it didn't mean anything."

- Elisa Thayer (Don't Look Back)

"We've pieced a trail across a dozen states. All people impaled by household objects. Bones broken. All without any traceable sign of physical contact. But only some of them involve any mutilation of the head or neck, so they don't see the connections."

- Audrey Hanson (One Giant Leap)

"Three months ago my job made perfect sense to me. Then I pulled the Sylar case."

- Audrey Hanson (Seven Minutes to Midnight)

"That sound in your heart, what is it?"
"Murder."

- Dale, Sylar (Unexpected)

Notes

• In an interview with writers Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, they said that three months ago is both when Audrey took the Sylar case, and when Sylar's murders attracted major attention.
• Audrey Hanson had mistakenly attributed the death of Dr. Robert Fresco to Sylar in "Nothing to Hide".
• Audrey Hanson states that eight murders are linked to Sylar, which would exclude murders done after the killing of the unnamed FBI agent. (Nothing to Hide)
• Sylar is seen wearing the same broken wristwatch as Chandra's killer in Mohinder's dream. Assuming the dream is accurate, Chandra Suresh is likely another of Sylar's victims. If so, then why he was killed in such a different fashion from the others likely has some significance.
• Eden McCain believed that Sylar was Chandra's killer; she tells Mohinder she's going to take care of his father's killer right before her encounter with Sylar. (Fallout)
• Mohinder tells the FBI that six people on the list have been killed, including Charlie Andrews and James Walker. (Fallout)

Gallery

• 
  Sylar's first murder weapon was a crystal from his shop.
  (Six Months Ago)
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  Brian Davis was bludgeoned to death. Afterwards, Sylar had somehow absorbed Davis's abilities.
  (Six Months Ago)
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  Sylar killed this male victim (possibly named David) in Chicago.
  (Turning Point)
• 
  Audrey shot an old man she mistook for Sylar; the serial killer gave the old man a coat in order to dupe the agent.
  (Turning Point)
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  Chandra Suresh was killed by Sylar in New York City.
  (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
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  Mohinder found Chandra's cab blood-stained and shredded to pieces.
  (Monsters)
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  James Walker was frozen in his own home.
  (Don't Look Back)
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  Molly Walker's mother was impaled with household items.
  (Don't Look Back)
• 
  A uniformed cop was frozen so badly, his right arm broke into many pieces.
  (One Giant Leap)
• 
  An FBI agent was impaled at FBI Headquarters.
  (One Giant Leap)
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  Sylar attempted to kill Audrey by making her point a gun at herself.
  (One Giant Leap)
• 
  One of Isaac's paintings depicts a bloody cheerleader.
  (Hiros)
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  Charlie's encephalectomy occurred at the Burnt Toast Diner.
  (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• 
  Mr. Bennet showed Eden this photo of Charlie.
  (Homecoming)
• 
  An unnamed male victim had his brain removed.
  (Homecoming)
• 
  An unnamed female victim had her brain removed.
  (Homecoming)
• 
  Jackie Wilcox had her head sliced open.
  (Homecoming)
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  Though Peter's fall would have most likely killed him, he was able to mimic Claire's regenerative powers.
  (Homecoming)
• 
  Eden McCain shoots herself rather than letting Sylar obtain her power.
  (Fallout)
• 
  Sylar's cell once again becomes a crime scene as Sylar kills Hank.
  (The Fix)
• 
  Mr. Bennet is slammed into the wall of Sylar's cell.
  (Distractions)
• 
  Sylar does the same to Sandra Bennet in her home.
  (Distractions)
• 
  Sylar telekinetically jabs broken beer bottles into a trucker's back.
  (Road Kill)
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  Sylar kills Zane, steals his power, and stores him in the kitchen for convenient cheek swabs.
  (Run!)
• 
  Dale is killed in her shop.
  (Unexpected)
• 
  Sylar beats Mohinder and pins him to the ceiling.
  (Parasite)
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  Sylar gives Peter a nasty headache.
  (Parasite)
• 
  Isaac creates a grim painting of himself.
  (Parasite)
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  The paintings become realized.
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  Isaac, in the future timeline Hiro saw, was killed in his studio.
  (Don't Look Back)
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  In an alternate timeline, Sylar kills Claire at Homecoming
  (String Theory)
• 
  In a possible future, Sylar kills Claire at her grandmother's home.
  (Five Years Gone)
• 
  When she attempts to stab Sylar with a pair of scissors, Virginia Gray is accidentally stabbed and killed in the ensuing struggle.
  (The Hard Part)

Fan Theories

Please refer to Theory:Sylar's victims for fan-created theories and other speculation.